"If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is… - R. D. Laing

"If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is really to get "on course" must leave the formation."

R. D. Laing

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Ronald David Laing (usually known as R.D. Laing, October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989) was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote on mental illness and the experience of psychosis.

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Native Name: Ronald David Laing

Alternative Names: Ronald Laing • R.D. Laing • Ronald D. Laing

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It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.

The cracked mind of the schizophrenic may let in light which does not enter intact minds of many sane people whose minds are closed.

Freud insisted that our civilization is a repressive one. There is a conflict between the demands of conformity and the demands of our instinctive energies, explicitly sexual. Freud could see no easy resolution of this antagonism, and he came to believe that in our time the possibility of simple natural love between human beings had already been abolished.

"If the formation is itself off course, then the man who is really to get "on course" must leave the formation." - R. D. Laing

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